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To: Rarebird who wrote (181)	1/29/2017 1:16:05 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 2202

Yes we still have that issue up here... Care is covered.. not drugs...

To: Rarebird who wrote (181)	1/29/2017 4:09:43 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2202

They are parasites, and like any parasite, they will only go if you force them to, or they kill off all host bodies. My brother is one such person with sky high prescription bills. He has Parkinson's. He bills were modestly high two years ago, but with the greedy free-for-all amongst big pharma, his prescriptions have gone up sometimes hundreds of percent in a single year. He has figured out how to import two of his medications from India, routed through a pharmacy in B.C. Canada bailing out the US yet again. The pills he takes are the same ones -- when he bought through a US pharmacy, he got the exact same pills. My brother tried skipping one of his meds that was jacked up so much, an extra 400 per month, and those two days he was without were the worst days of his life, he said. He had one procedure a few years ago, expected to cost $11k, and the insurance co fought him through appeal after appeal. I went to the final appeal with him and estimated the cost of all involved and what it cost them to fight it, including yet another expert at their expense who approved the procedure ("those @ssholes" he said...): about $6k. Thus, the insurance company caused this medically necessary minor surgery to cost $17k instead of $11k. That $6k down the drain would of course be taken out of somebody else's hide. The biggest surprise was the level of security at their headquarters. OMG...